U—Pb Age and Analysis of the Lu—Hf Isotope System of Zircon from Granitoids of the Final Phases of Neplyuev Pluton (Southern Urals)

Abstract

Here we present the first results of LA—ICP—MS Lu—Hf and U—Pb isotope analyses (Geoanalytic Center for Common Use, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Center for Isotope Research, Karpinskii All-Russia Geological Research Institute, St. Petersburg (CCU UB RAS)) of zircons from finegrained granite of the Neplyuev Pluton which is the final phase earlier dated to 278 ± 1 Ma by the Rb–Sr method, along with new SIMS U—Pb results (SHRIMP, Center for Isotope Research, Karpinskii All-Russia Geological Research Institute, St. Petersburg (CIR VSEGEI)). The U—Pb results of similar zircon grain domains obtained using the two techniques agree well with each other. A difference in the age of zircon of two different morphologies has been found: the first one with a pronounced concentric oscillatory zoning yielded the concordia U—Pb age of 360 ± 2 Ma (SHRIMP) and 368 ± 6 Ma (LA—ISP—MS); the second type (“amoeba-shaped cores” with patchy zoning) gave 430 ± 9 Ma as a result. Considering the εHf vs. εNd systematics, the zircon from the granite is assumed to be of xenogenic but not magmatic nature.